Hi Bones, I Second the Motion. Been there: Done that. A big boat means operating out of a fixed base - Marina or mooring - and the costs keep rising every year. Then there are the maintenance costs: bigger is automatically more expensive. Dockage goes by the foot length of the boat (that's why in bygone days the smarties had retractable bow sprits). ....and as you so correctly stated, larger does not mean more fun. I found the opposite to be true. Costs for M15 maintenance are small change. It's all doable yourself - no yard facilities needed. An M15 is instantly ready to go where ever your mood dictates: Chesapeake Bay? Maine? the Florida Keys? Georgian Bay? Every place is suddenly reachable in a few hours driving time. Sixty-five MPH to windward on an Interstate is hard to duplicate in a larger vessel. The sailing experience palette widens enormously the smaller the boat becomes. Sure there are compromises, but these are easy to live with when you use a bit of imagination to solve the problems. Our M15 was an ideal vessel for two people Connie